Dec 21, 2008 01:34 PM
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(Updated Feb 07, 2009 01:11 PM)
Comments on Nokia as basic phone*
1) This phone looks sexy and cool. Its compact, good battery life, sound and voice.
2)But keyboard interferes in the navigational keys and accept/reject keys. Every time you want to accept or reject a phone, the qwerty keys(P&Q) below them will get pressed.
No dedicated button for camera. A useless hardware button for voice command/PPT is present. I guess 1% user may be using it. Instead it could be camera button.
If you are considering to buy this phone against a windows or blackberry phone. Please consider these.
Nokiais still living in their own world, where they think they have invented a great business application phone. But Nokia email features and design are inferior compared with windows and blackberry. I don't understand why they have not yet questioned their Design & Product teams. They have come up with an email client which is like a black & White TV in 2008.There are hundreds of things that goes wrong this these all Nokia/Symbian emails phones. They have created phone that just shows a feature exists by emails/calenders. They are not suited for business email users. I have been using many windows mobile (Samsung i780, HTC, O2, Sony P1i)and other blackberry. Nokia fails in following -
Slowest processor(360MHz).Other business phones have 400 to 680HHz(samsung i780, iphone, HTCTTYII, Sony Experiea). Thsi 300 Hz process of E71 takes too much time to open emails, download, switch emails, etc.
Hundreds of unnecessary system messages putting phone in modal mode(cant do anything else). Eg.. every time you switch emails account( yahoo to Gmail) .. a message comes. (a)"Do you want to Connect?". if said yes, it shows a big progress bar and one cannot do anything. In windows Mobile, such idiotic operations are done in background. One can set few mails to download and still go and read other mail. In Nokia you just cant do any thing.., (b)"another message "Retrieving mails", Progress bars, etc... Looks like Noikia has a hugh documentation team to show messages.
Nokia still believes that the whole world is hidden in their revolutionary "Options" menu, .They think the world is still living in 1995. Most of important information and all actions are hidden in this great "Options" menu.They are 10 clicks away.. eg.. attachments are all hidden, as if they are not important. Creating new mails is a 10 click process. Options>message>New>email>exchange email> ....What a pathetic design.
There is no way to search the emails in the email list. Windows Mobile does this beautifully. If you just type few words of either name of person or subject line in email list view, all matching emails are filtered in runtime.. like the contact filter. Nokia thinks its not important and according to them most people have not more then 5mails in their mail box. I have 400 emails in 5 emails accounts. Its a hell job on nokia. But very smooth on windows and blackberry.
5) The moment you enter an email box, by default nokia takes you to the unread mails, no matter its sitting on 51th level. But I dont want this. I want toread the latest mail. So I have to keep scrolling.. or make sure that ihave read all my past 100 mails. Or nokia will punish me everytime...
6)There is no email suggester like in windowsmobile. I have to click "To", then go to contacts, then select a name(nokia dont show email id), then after selecting, nokia will tell there are more emails to this name, so select one.. then icome back to email.. Such a big process. Why dont they just copy other windows emails function like in Outlook/Window Mobile. In windows phone if you just start typing name in To field, all matching emails just appears below.
7) No HTML view. Nokia have decided in this world- 2009, no one needs to see html mails. They think we are ancient caveman. Because of this lack of feature, most of the emails show to me as blank body. I dont know why.. Nokia just cant read those htmls formatted mails. sometime it reads but most of time they are blank. But other mobile platforms - Windows Mobile 6, Symbian UIQ 9 , etc do show html mails beautifully.
8)If you choose imap as folders format, then you cant have option to download emails by KB size. This is weird..
9 ) I dont know why Nokia cant provide separate sent , outbox foldersfor different email account. I have yahoo, Gmail and hotmail. .. all the sent mails of each mail account are put in only one sent mail. It become difficult to sort them by email.. And anyway there is no search emails functionanywhere.
10) There are many functions lacking in the email. If you sent a mail, you cant forward the same mail. You canedit the attachments and add new.
11) the folder view is a nonsense...If you select an email account, by default it shows all folder, then again I have to select inbox. This I have to do every time. They cant set inbox as default and have folder to switch by options menu.Everything in nokia is many clicks away..
10) Nokia has not at all used the qwerty keyboard as shortcuts. No button is mapped. Every thing is by options menu. What a shame..
11) Most of the places, wrong actions assigned to buttons.Eg. in an calender view, if I get an calender invite, and I click the center button, I should show the options to accept, reject, postpone..But instead it starts calling the person. They forget that I am incalender view and the center button should be mapped to the applications. The green call key is already there for calling. Then whydo such mistakes.
12) The auto suggest for spelling is a bigfailure for qwerty keyboard users. Such users( also me) don't look atthe screen while pressing keys. Now with spellchecker on, it start tying wrong words. Also, if I want to just check spellings at the endof email, there is no option.
13) The contacts application is really a shame**. Now, since thisE71 is an emailing phone, they should show email on mouse over the contact. But instead, I have to open the contact and then select the email. There is no way to customize the view of contacts. eg..name+number, name + email, single line view, two lines., show pictures, Show latest added contacts, Show most frequently used contacts. Show contacts by date creations, picture view. These features really help toget right contacts if you have 1000+ contact. I do have.
Looking at all this, nokia should not call them self as emailing phone. They are a toy maker in emailing business...
All these above basic features are therein windows mobile phone.
More nokia failures later.
Sameer.
